HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

 

UNIX

 

PLATFORM

OS VERSION

GRAPHICS CARD

DISK SPACE

(MB)

HP

HP-UX 11+

Minimum CRX 8 Plane

200

IBM

AIX 4.2+

Minimum 24 Plane Graphics

200

SGI

IRIX 6.5+

All Graphics Boards Supported

200

SUN

SunOS 5.8+

Minimum Creator 3D

200

 

 

LINUX

 

The RedHat operating system version 7.3 and above is supported. eta/DSI must run under KDE environment. The NVIDIA graphic cards are recommended.

 

 

PC/WINDOWS

 

eta/DSI in PC platform is compatible with PC-LS-DYNA 970. It will run in Windows 98, 2000, and XP environments.  It is not recommended for usage with earlier versions of Windows.  The following are minimum requirements for proper operation of eta/DSI in a Windows environment:

 

Minimum Graphics Requirement: XGA(1024 x 768)

 

Graphics Card: OpenGL based (Nvidia chip set recommended)

 

Minimum Memory Requirement:

       Small models (under 50,000 elements):             384 megabytes RAM

       Medium models (50,000 - 500,000 elements):      512 megabytes RAM

       Large models (500,000 - 1 million elements):         768 megabytes RAM

       Super large models (1 million to 4 millions):           1024+ megabytes RAM

      

Minimum Load space requirement:  256 megabytes

Recommended processor:  Pentium 4